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Information Analysis and Repackaging

Notes
1.18 Summary
1.19 Keywords
1.20 Review Questions
1.21 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Define information analysis
• Explain information analysis process
• Describe arrangement and presentation
• Define theoretical framework
• Describe arrangement of subgroups and arrangement by series
• Explain principles of presentation and metadata guide.

Introduction

Information analysis has been carried out by scholars at least as early as the time of the Abyssinian
Empire with the emergence of cultural depositories, what is today known as libraries and archives.
Institutionally, information science emerged in the 19th century along with many other social science
disciplines. As a science, however, it finds its institutional roots in the history of science, beginning
with publication of the first issues of Philosophical Transactions, generally considered the first scientific
journal, in 1665 by the Royal Society (London).

1.1 Information Analysis

The institutionalization of science occurred throughout the 18th Century. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin
established the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first library owned by a group of public citizens,
which quickly expanded beyond the realm of books and became a center of scientific experiment,
and which hosted public exhibitions of scientific experiments.
Benjamin Franklin did invest a town in Massachusetts with a collection of books that the town
voted to make available to all free of charge, which formed the first Public Library.

Academie de Chirurgia (Paris) published Memoires pour les Chirurgiens,
generally considered to be the first medical journal, in 1736.

The American Philosophical Society, patterned on the Royal Society (London), was founded in
Philadelphia in 1743. As numerous other scientific journals and societies were founded, Alois
Senefelder developed the concept of lithography for use in mass printing work in Germany in 1796.

1.2 Information Analysis Concept

Information is the vital input into any active management strategy. Information separates active
management from passive management. Information, properly applied, allows active managers to
outperform their informationless bench marks. Information analysis is the science of evaluating

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